Girls

Girls (2012) 

“I give zero fucks about anything, yet I have a strong opinion on everything, even topics I'm not informed on." First thing which comes to my mind is to write that it is Sex in the City (because a comedy drama from the life of four gentle women in New York under the auspices of HBO) for the younger generation, but it would not be fair to this self-proclaimed generational statement, let alone apt. The two series couldn't be more different in terms of style, humor, target and focus. Sex and the City was an unwanted parody of itself (and therefore an excellent guilty pleasure, that is true) about the age of the "pretend we're in our thirties" and not very bright city cows on high heels and their search for guys/clothes/cocktails and… And nothing more. The neurotic Hannah aka Lena, very much and sometimes to her detriment wannabe Woody Allen in a female version. Dunham has definitely a lot to say about this generation of privileged white people "who do not know what else to do", adolescence, self-search, independence, relationships and life as such and is not afraid to say it very openly, hard, to the point, self-ironically, vulgarly and uses strange sexual aspects and practices. The only question is whether what he says (and especially how he says it; whether through his alter ego or his words that are told by life characters) is something you want to hear in the first place. And this is the polarizing point, because for the fact if you like it or not depends on if you can (not) handle the very unique speech of Lena Dunham. It will either get on your nerves (and through it even the whole series, because he is behind the typewriter, behind the camera and in front of it) or not. And in none of those cases it is not surprising, but if nothing else, it's a grateful target for apt sketches | S1: 3/5 | S2: 3/5 | S3: 5/5 | S4: 5/5 | S5: 4/5 | S6: 4/5 | (06.01.2015)